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"It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing."
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"You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence."
"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"
"What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say."
"He who illumines one has begun illumining the world."
"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"
"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"
"If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential."
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"It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start."
"It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends."
"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."
"The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet."
"I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics."
"I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad."
"People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them."
"My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff."
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